OREANDA-NEWS. TNK-BP is planning to allocate 90 million rubles for the complete removal of all oil sludge on the territory of Orenburg Oblast in 2007, Interfax was informed in the company’s Orenburg press service.

According to the press service, it is planned to remove 86,500 cubic of oil sludge that has accumulated on the oblast territory over seventy years of oil field operation.

Within the framework of the environmental protection program at Orenburgneft (TNK-BP’s main asset in Orenburg Oblast), TNK-BP began removal operations of waste formed by productive activity since the beginning of oil field operation in 2003, said a press service representative. 

He added that TNK-BP processed a total of about 280,000 cubic of oil sludge in Orenburg Oblast in 2003-2006, with a cost of over 140 million rubles.

CJSC Rosekoprom, a contracting organization, has recently begun processing oil sludge at TNK-BP’s Pokrovskoye and Bobrovskoye fields in Orenburg Oblast.